Poems from Inside. Poems and short oddities originating from my time as a guest of the Acute Psychiatric Unit.

John Mack explored alien encounter experiences deeply revealing a world of meaning and power that can revolutionize our understanding of who we are and our place in the cosmos. Dr. Mack suggests that such experiences reveal to us a universe which is filled with intelligence and life though this may not always take the densely embodied form with which we are most familiar. This book brings us to the edge of material reality and beyond shattering the boundary that has separated matter and sp...

Short fiction. Fame is a long, hard road. Sacrifices must be made. But when you've earned it, it seems everyone wants a piece of you.

A Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John E. Mack, the author of A Prince of Our Disorder, presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than 60 cases he has investigated, and examines the implications for our identity as a species. These mesmerizing and thought-provoking stories of alien encounters from a Harvard professor take you through actual case studies of people from all walks of life and ages who have had challenging, sometimes disturbing, ...

Short fiction. "So I left him for dead, and I ran. I had no choice." The hunt has gone on for centuries. But tonight - tonight, one way or another - it ends.

Short fiction. If you could change anything about your life - anything - what would you change? And what would you sacrifice?

‘There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting and enslaving than the life at sea,’ wrote Joseph Conrad. And there is perhaps nothing more integral to the development of the modern world. The Sea: A Cultural History, considers those great expanses that both unite and divide us, and the ways in which human beings interact because of the sea, from navigation to colonization to trade.Much of the world’s population lives on or near the coast, and people inhabit and engage with...

Short story. All they wanted - all any of them really wanted - was a family. A family of their very own.

Short fiction. There are few enough rewards to the work. But today, Alisha will see that the mortician gets what's coming to him.

Short fiction. Two orphaned children, plucked from the streets by a cruel master, escape into their art.

Short fiction. In all the decades they had been married, he had never cheated on her, nothing so banal. Yet his fixation on a long-departed younger model at last became more than she could stand.

Short story. A man returns to the aboriginal community where he first learned the indigenous legend of the mermaids.